#27: Betanet imminent đŚ
Covering Dec 10-16 2018
News
ByteSize Capital read our expectation of ~1M GPUs for the Genesis block as an âestimateâ and called Grin either the âmost obviousâ or âmost crowdedâ trade of 2019. Or both perhaps? Glad someone is reading the meeting notes at least. đľď¸ââď¸
Coindesk reveals that Amir Taaki, creator of libbitcoin and DarkWallet, has built a wallet that supports âMimblewimbleâ.
@askepios discovered an Augur prediction market on whether Grinâs market cap would exceed $500m within the next 6 months. @tromp offers convincing analysis on why this would be unlikely in-thread.
@jaspervdm interviewed by BitcoinWednesday.
Zooko tweets in support of donations to Grinâs security audit.
RIP Tim May, author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and Cyphernomicon. Relevant HackerNews discussion.
Dev
There are 119 open issues in Grin.Â
29 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 8 unique contributors.
Notes from the last developer meeting. âFloonetâ, what is intended to be the permanent betanet, is launching in the next couple of days. Itâs essentially a dry run of mainnet launch, practicing the genesis block release process.
Bitcoin StackExchange discussion on tradeoffs between privacy and implementation complexity of Dandelion.
Daira raising security concerns with Dual PoW approach on the Zcash forums.
Progress being made on Switch Commitments.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 25 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow Tuesday Dec 18 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Weâll be discussing possible Mission statements. Come and join the fun
Community
More emission rate debate on the forum.
@bladedoyle published how-toâs for CPU and also GPU mining on MWGrinPool.
Research
Dan Boneh, Benedikt BĂźnz & co dropped yet another bombshell paper, this time on Universal Accumulators. Discussion ensued trying to make sense of it and the potential implications.
Upcoming events
Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup Â
Jan 28, San Mateo, CA:Â Grincon(0)<US>. Registrations are open. Get your tickets early so you donât miss out.
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